Chapter 317 Completely Take it

The goal conceding in the seventeenth minute was undoubtedly a heart-warming agent for the England national team. Although they played in a mess before this goal, they immediately took the lead after mastering the rhythm. This fact made them start to calm down and stabilize quickly, knowing where their advantages lie.

Although England has always been good at running and confrontation, which is their traditional characteristics and advantages, but compared with Sweden, their advantages in this regard are not obvious, but are at a disadvantage. Almost all Swedish players from Nordic Europe are tall and big, with excellent confrontational ability. This is also the characteristic of Nordic teams. In this case, England should have been a weak technology and organization, but instead can achieve quite good results when fighting Sweden.

English players have solid basic skills but lack that kind of spirituality. This is a common feature of English players. However, in the history of English football, there has never been a lack of those with excellent skills! From Bobby Charlton to Hodel to Gascoin, they are all rare technical players in England. Now England also has a Tiger Lee who is even better than these great players in comparison with Tiger Lee in the team. He does not lack the ability to organize and dispatch and glue the entire team together. As long as he plays out his strengths, England can overwhelm Sweden in the technical aspects and gain an advantage on the field!

To put it bluntly, a football game is a game where you use your own outstanding things to defeat the opponent's poor things. For England, they are certainly not good at technical aspects, but they have an advantage when they are against Sweden. If you can use this to suppress your opponent, your chances of winning will be greater.

Of course, using your best part to suppress all opponents and kill them all the way is naturally the most enjoyable and convenient way. Unfortunately, in the world of football, there are few examples of being invincible by exerting your abilities to the limit, so the role of the head coach will be so important.

After gaining the leading advantage, England began to stalk against the opponent in the midfield. In terms of the hardness of the midfield, England was slightly inferior. No matter how well Tiger's physical fitness was strengthened by Lin Danda and others, he was always a player who did not like to fight with his body. Beckham was injured before and was worse in physical competition. Scholes was average in height, and only Gerald could fight with the opponent. Therefore, in the midfield, England relied more on skills to entangle with the opponent, and until the defense line, he fought head-on with the opponent.

The midfielder has an advantage in fighting Sweden, but once it reaches the frontcourt, Sweden's physical advantage is gone - England's two central defenders towers usually stand in the penalty area, regardless of height, power and agility, are the world's top-notch - Campbell and Ferdinand, the black and white evil spirits, are simply the nemesis of power-type play, and although Miles is frizzy, the confrontation is also good.

After Larson was unceremoniously knocked to the ground by Campbell, the Swedish forward knew that he could not easily break through from the front. Although Campbell received a yellow card for this defense, he still gave the Swedish offensive players a warning.

When the frontal attack was not open, Sweden began to seek breakthroughs from the wings, and Lyonberg began to attack from both wings frequently. Although it was difficult for him to easily break through Arsenal teammate Ashley Cole, who was extremely familiar with him, he always gained the upper hand when facing the frizzy Miles on the right.

However, despite the many breakthroughs on the wing, England's air defense capabilities in the penalty area are among the top among the entire World Cup teams. Two central defenders with a classic height of 1.87 meters tall have almost all the crosses from the opponent, making Sweden's offense always come back in vain!

In the counterattack, every counterattack from England could scare Sweden. Although the wings lacked speed, Irving's speed and Beckham's long pass were enough for the tall Swedish defenders to have a drink, not to mention the threading of Tiger in the middle.

In the 31st minute, Beckham made a long pass from the backcourt, and Irving almost made a one-on-one shot. Fortunately, Patrick Anderson, who made a replacement, made a timely replacement, and a beautiful tackle kicked the ball out of the baseline, and England won a corner kick.

Beckham ran up - the drill of frontcourt set pieces has always been the top priority of England. Two central defenders with excellent heading skills can show their skills in this situation. Husky's heading ability is not bad. In addition, tall men like Gerald and Irving and Tiger who are not tall and have a strong sense of smell, England's frontcourt set pieces are definitely one of the ways to make the opponent's headache.

After hearing the referee blowing the whistle, Beckham took a few steps back and passed the ball into the penalty area with his right foot!

Sweden's penalty area was immediately in chaos. In the chaos, Campbell inserted into the back row like a big bird, rushing to the top before the opponent's goalkeeper!

Hudson, who made a mistake in attack, was unable to turn the world around and watched Campbell push the ball into the goal!

2-0! This is Campbell's first goal in the national team - one goal was scored in 46 games, which is a little less for the central defender. When facing Argentina in the last World Cup knockout stage, Campbell once headed the ball while the two sides were stalemate for a year, but was invalid because Hiller was fouled in advance while competing for the position. After this header was pushed in, Campbell also realized his dream!

Arsenal central defender Campbell and Manchester United midfielder Beckham hugged each other tightly, and those who ran towards them were Liverpool striker Irving and midfielder Tiger who played overseas. In the national team, such a harmonious scene rarely appears, and only in the national team, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and overseas players can embrace each other without any barriers...

The fans of England were extremely excited to successfully take the lead with two goals. They all knew that Argentina only had a small victory in another game. If the result of two goals leading until the end, England would be ranked first in this group!

Facing his old rival Argentina, even if he only temporarily suppresses his opponent, the English fans were extremely happy!

In the following time in the first half, Sweden launched a fierce attack, trying to get a point back before the end of the first half. England also recovered some appropriately and used ball control to kill time. Sweden created several good opportunities, but all of them were unable to score under England's excellent defense. Albuck and Larson's shots were not within the range of the goal frame.

The two goals led into the halftime break, giving Erikson great confidence.

"After the second half begins, the pace will slow down a little. If you can control the ball more, you will control the ball more. Tempting them to grab it and consuming physical strength... This is just the first game, we don't need to spend too much effort... As a player said, our goal is to knockout stages, and if you can save some effort in the group stage, you will save some effort." Erikson made a rare joke.

The English players burst into laughter and then looked at Tiger one after another. Although they didn't get along much, they played more than a dozen games together. Who doesn't know who? Maybe only Tiger would say this kind of incredible confidence. At least other players were still a little upset when they knew they were assigned to this group. After all, Argentina, Nigeria and Sweden are not easy to deal with.

"We got two goals in the first half, which is a huge advantage, but we can't just think about leading two goals... The purpose of entanglement in the midfield is not to waste time, but to better expand the score... lure them out to grab it, so that we will have more space in the frontcourt, and focus the ball more at Tiger's feet. Others should pay attention to the reception, and return to defense in time. It is better to get stuck than to pounce on and blindly defend. Do you understand?"

As a famous coach in Serie A, Eriksson undoubtedly attaches great importance to defense. Although Lazio, under his command, is more good at offense, he also attaches importance to defense compared to Serie A teams. Otherwise, he would not have trained a top defender like Nesta, and at the same time, he would have used Negro and Favalli, who are better at defense, in the position of full-backs...

What satisfies him was that the English players did not have any resistance to this kind of contraction defense tactic. In fact, England players rarely pursue beauty. Graham played the most brutal and boring football at Arsenal, but he still received support from fans and players. This is a good example.

However, Erikson is indeed very good at being a good person. When the players were about to play in the second half, he grabbed Tiger and asked with great concern: "If you control the ball more in the second half, it won't be too much, right?"

"Fortunately, I don't know how to control the ball completely. The combination of ball control and pass balls is the most labor-saving and effective." Tiger nodded, saying that he didn't mind.

Then Erikson patted Tiger on the back: "Go, boy, win this game and lay the solid foundation for qualifying in the group!"

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The second half begins.

After the second half began, Sweden immediately launched a fierce attack - for European teams, whether it is a strong team or a mid-range team, the players participating in the World Cup will definitely not be in the best state. In this season before the competition year, in order to leave enough time for the competition, the schedule will be much more intensive than usual. Just like in the La Liga, non-contest years will always end in mid-to-late June, and when there are competitions, it will end in about early May. Although the start time is half a month earlier, the players shortened the game time for nearly one month, and the game density will not decrease at all. In this case, the physical fitness of European teams will definitely not be very good.

In the first half, in order to fight England's technical advantages, Swedish players also ran quite fiercely. If they did not seize the time at the beginning of the second half, seized the opportunity to suppress England and scored at least one goal, they would not need to play after the physical strength in the next game.

England began to entangle with the opponent in the midfield - just like the last ten minutes of the first half, exhausting the opponent's sharpness and then launching an attack...

In the 49th minute, Tiger pulled back and got the ball, and then suddenly made a long pass while turning around!

The ball quickly passed the half and fell in front of Owen who was in front of him!

This sudden long pass not only made the Swedish defenders at a loss, but also made Irving unprepared - when Tiger got the ball just now, he was still facing the Sweden halftime. How could he complete such a long pass while turning around, and it was also so accurate!

The moment of loss of consciousness made Irving regret it after the game - because he could have scored in this game, but this stunned him lost his chance...

When Irving started again and was about to chase the ball, the Swedish defenders who reacted entangled him and cleared the ball first, passing the ball back to goalkeeper Hudson. Hudson immediately cleared the ball with his feet and resolved the crisis.

Owen walked back dejectedly, giving Tiger a thumbs up while walking. Tiger smiled and replied, saying that he didn't care - the long pass just now was also the product of his sudden inspiration, and it was almost unreplicable. It was normal for Owen to not prepare.

However, what Tiger did not expect was that because he did not receive this pass, Irving kept paying attention to Tiger even when he was swimming in the frontcourt, especially when he was taking the ball, he was ready to accept Tiger's pass at any time...

It was nothing to lose such an opportunity, because England was still leading two balls. However, a few minutes later, a mistake on the England defense line gave Sweden the opportunity to rekindle hope - the midfielder made a purposeless long pass, and the ball flew towards Miles. Miles was about to stop the ball in his chest and then cleared it. However, it was surprising that for such a basic stop action, he directly stopped the ball with his chest for two meters away, and fell directly to the opponent's midfielder Alisanderson in the penalty area...

"Oh, this idiot..." Countless English fans lamented like this!

Facing Ferdinand who rushed to fill the position, Alysanderson took the opportunity to hit the ball horizontally, dodged Ferdinand's defense, and immediately took a strong shot with his left foot!

This series of actions was done neatly and neatly. Facing such a shot with no problem with the force at the angle in the penalty area, Ximan could only kneel down!

In the 60th minute, the Swedish team scored a point!

This goal gave Sweden endless confidence, and their two coaches also made timely adjustments, replacing one Svensen with another Svensen (Anders Svensen replaced Magnus Svensen), and then replacing another striker Andres Anderson with forward Albuck...

Sweden, whose momentum was rising, began to beat England around him. England, whose midfield defense ability was slightly lacking, began to reclaim its defense, and the scene became passive.

In this case, Erikson began to make substitutions - this substitution showed his decisiveness - Beckham, who was slightly exhausted after he recovered from his injury, was replaced by Hargreaves. While this substitution increased the defense and running ability of the midfield, it also began to liberate Tiger and Scholes at the same time - both of them had the ability to dispatch in the middle and pass in the middle. After Beckham got out, they took turns to organize the attack in the middle. With Husky's retreat, England's midfield began to become stable.

Husky's tactical role can be seen in this adjustment - the defender, who was almost shattered by English fans, showed his ability to stir up trouble after returning to the midfield - you should know that when he debuted, he could play in the midfield, and Liverpool often played as a guest player in the left front. After returning to the midfield, he began to intercept and destroy wildly, stabilizing England's crumbling situation!

However, keeping steady can only be stabilized. If the situation of falling behind with one goal remains, Sweden will never lose hope. At this time, if the opponent's hope is completely destroyed, then the score can only be expanded again!

After all, this is just the first game in the group. The two Swedish head coaches are not ordinary people. They are two goals behind. They will consider whether they should save their strength and strive for a qualifying place in the next two games. After all, their last game is against Argentina and they have the last chance to play.

At this time, Tiger began to show his outstanding personal scoring ability - he has always been a midfielder with explosive scoring ability! Especially in critical situations, the possibility of his explosion is much greater than usual - this is also a characteristic that makes all opponents grit their teeth...

In the 73rd minute, with the assistance of Husky who was returning to defense, Tiger suddenly broke out from the diagonal spike and cut off the opponent's midfield pass!

Because of the pressure just now, Sweden once again showed an extremely empty state in the half...

Tiger's sudden interruption made all Swedish players a little stunned, because except when there was a ball under his feet, Tiger had always walked lazily in the midfield like a full tiger when Sweden attacked, but now, he seemed like a hungry tiger going down the mountain!

Almost in an instant, Tiger dribbled through the midfield and then began to swing forward with big strides!

"Tiger!Tiger!Tiger!"

"Run!Run!Run!"

The English fans cheered for Tiger rhythmically, and Tiger rushed faster and faster in the cheers. The Swedish defenders who were desperately returning to defense could only watch the distance between them and Tiger became bigger and bigger!

When he rushed to the front of the penalty area and saw Hudson who had already run out of the small penalty area, Tiger was too lazy to bother with the opponent anymore. He stretched his foot under the ball and shot it!

As the English fans cheered louder and louder, the ball drew an elegant arc in the air, flew over Hudson's head in despairy eyes, and then fell into the goal against the lower edge of the crossbar...

Three to one! Completely lay the victory!

Amid the cheers of England fans, Erikson breathed a sigh of relief - he finally completely won the national team of his motherland!
Chapter completed!